Vergil in the Middle Ages
Contributors: Robinson Ellis (Introduction); E. F. M. Benecke (Translator)
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Published: December 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781931956352
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: THE supreme ideal of epic poetry, in ancient as in modern times, was always the Epic of Homer; it was to this that poet and public alike looked for a criterion; and so lofty was this ideal that while, on the one hand, the possibility of attaining to it was excluded, on the other hand those who failed to attain to it might yet reach to a great and imposing elevation.